I’m not usually big on decorating for the Holidays {except Christmas}, but this year so far I really seem to be getting into it! Maybe it’s just having a little person around that makes it more fun. Anyways, whilst rummaging through all the Valentine’s stuff on Pinterest I came across this : {The Peanut Paintshop}…
New Camera & some Heart Garland
Tuesday Night we celebrated Wes’s birthday with our family. One of the gifts he received was a fancy new camera that he was kind enough to let me “play” with today. 🙂 I spent the morning reading up on the different settings & messing around and then I wanted something “official” to photograph. So I headed on…
Picture Wall Progress: Laying It All Out
At the end of December I posted about finding & spray painting my 25 frames for the picture wall I wanted to create. Now I’m about half way through hanging my pictures & thought I’d share some of my progress 🙂 To arrange my pictures I traced each one onto newspaper and then labeled each corresponding…
Twisted Flower Bracelet
Whilst searching for gift ideas, I came across a gorgeous Rosette Bracelet Tutorial by Heidi at sew.craft.create. I instantly fell in love! I had already used the “rosette” flower technique a couple of times before on some other projects so I thought this would be super easy. When it came time to create my version, I…
Pom Necklaces
These necklaces were created as gifts for my cousins. I found a tutorial for them on the stay-at-home artist blog: it was a guest post by Rachel Obrien. The weren’t quite as easy as I though {NOT hard, I just suck at using the hot glue gun :P}, but very simple. I love how they…
Sugar Scrubs
When I started seeing sugar scrub recipes on Pinterest, I knew I had to do some for Christmas. After looking at how different people approached them I ended up coming up with my own variations {& from what I hear they turned out pretty good!} We kept a little of the leftovers for ourselves and…
A Homemade Christmas
Happy New Year everyone! Now that the Christmas season is over, I though I’d look back on our homemade gift creations: some of them are pretty self explanatory and will only appear here, and a few I will include links to full posts on how we did them. We had a great time coming up…
25 Frames: Spray Painting Cheap Frames for a Unified Picture Wall
I’ve decided that I want a picture wall. You know, the walls with a ridiculous amount of different sized frames all squished together? When I first started seeing these on the internet I strongly disliked them… I thought they looked so messy. Obviously now I have changed my mind :). Then I saw an example done…
DIY Camera Strap Cover
This year Wes and I thought that in addition to our regular Christmas shopping, it would be nice to make some of our gifts ourselves. While this definitely helped with the budget, it was also a nice way to have special, personal gifts for our family. As I was searching through lots of tutorials for…
Upcycling Toddler Shorts Into A Toddler Purse
Ever have a strong desire to make a small purse out of children’s booty shorts?? Just me? Ok then. We got these shorts in one of our ebay “lots” of clothing – size 24 months. Most of the clothes were for the fall/winter season, because that’s when she turns 2, but for whatever reason these…